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PART 2

In part 1 we ended with Mikey romancing his girlfriend, and we begin part 2 with Cris scamming Mikey's girlfriend...

Mikey was rightly upset with his mother!

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PART 1

Again with the cheapskate date?! I'm pretty sure I hadn't learned my lesson even with these guys, so you'll have to watch me embarrassingly misunderstand how to skip out on the bill... again.

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PART 2

In the first part, Lencho's dad, Einrí, passed away just before he got to age into an adult :( They didn't throw a party, only those who were present for Einrí's death stayed back to help celebrate with the grieving family.

Ta da! Obviously, Lencho will eventually pop out to go buy new clothes and maybe get a new hairstyle to help him feel better about his tarnished birthday...

I have no idea what possessed me to pull out the genie lamp, but I did and made Judah wish for wealth, so here it is!

The café isn't working out for great income, especially since for a while there were only elders who were responsible for kids, and so they got tired out pretty quickly.

Lencho (still without a driver's license) asks Aunty Rosa and Uncle Judah to take him out shopping! (I imagine Judah rode in the tray... let's not think about it XD)

Judah and Rosa decide to have some public fun, despite Lencho's protests...

Rosa decided that actually wasn't the outfit for her, oh well... she just needed an excuse to be in the changing booth for... other reasons.

They made it home, and Lencho changed into his new outfit and magically changed his hairstyle (or I took them to Dominick's Glam Up salon... I don't remember... we can pretend they went there.).

Einrí's sister and sons all congregate around the genie lamp to discuss something very sensitive... they came to find out that each of them secretly wanted to resurrect Einrí, and with a lamp in the house... why not risk it and try to bring him back??

(It was a bit of a surprise to me that all three of them wanted to resurrect Einrí... so I decided to indulge them.)

No zombie! Ignore Malachy, let's pretend he wasn't grieving other his father coz his AI couldn't recognise what was happening... he was just overcome with emotions that his father was coming back! :D

Einrí had already thanked and hugged Lencho as he's the one who brought him back, but he didn't forget the other two who were part of the decision making!

Einrí "reacquaints" himself with Aschlee, who is much relieved to have her boyfriend back!

Einrí is now younger than Rosaleen, I think... or did I adjust his age a bit so he didn't just completely reset? I don't remember >.>

Aaaaaaand a lovely night of returned loved ones ends with a burglary... thanks dude >.>

We'll end with Rosa getting yelled at by Rémy, coz she spied on him; and with Lencho getting a promotion!

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PART 1

We finally return to the beginning of all the households, my founder's house! New season, here we come!

Before we get into Rosaleen's RoS event, her brother, Einrí has some business to attend to: ending his love affair with Jen, so that he and Aschlee can go steady!

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pforestsims

A tip for TS2 cc creators using Milkshape. You can fix those ugly dark spots with Extended Manual Edit plugin if you're patient enough by copying normal values from one vertex to another.

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Hello, hope you’re well! I just wanted to ask if there’s any place where I can find your old CC, in particular the default replacements, as the links don’t work anymore. (Maybe it’s all deleted but thought I’d ask at least!😊)

Ack, I was supposed to deal with this years ago >.< Someone had asked me to submit my download link to someone as an archive, but I never got around to it... and then forgot about it >.<

Anyway, I apparently backed everything up on Dropbox, so click here for the full folder of stuff. I really hope that works - I double checked I chose to share a view only link, but I hope that means you can still download stuff! (Yes... it has been that long since I've used Dropbox >.>)

I don't have images outside of the download archives at the moment, but I've been thinking of retaking images of the downloads I still like, and reposting them here...

I'm also really sorry to the anon I ignored years ago! :(

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episims

But seriously to all creators, if your clothing file has a normal map that looks like this:

It's completely redundant. Your piece will look just the same with or without it.

But what it does do, since it's still a texture, it takes space. And while that ~4KB for each might not seem like much, it accumulates. I've literally deleted hundreds of these, and that's not not much anymore.

If you've experienced weird issues from deleting them, it's because you'll also need to delete all the stdMatNormalMapTexture lines from material definitions. It's these 4 lines:

Deleting the junk already before making recolor files is a time-saving habit.

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Oooooh boy, can I also add something about default replacements?

I see so many default replacements with redundant txtr and txmt files in them. Hair usually consists of a "hair" group and a "hair_alpha" group or whatever, and the "hair" group is usually just the scalp with a transparent texture.

The problem is that there will be a separate hair_txmt AND a transparent hair texture for every single age group and hair color, meaning there are like five to ten files in there that don't need to be there:

If your "hair" group is not supposed to have a texture, you can assign one single hair_txmt to ALL ages and hair colours, you do not need a separate one for each. Then you can open the txmt and delete these lines:

Once those lines are deleted, you do not even need the transparent txtr file. Simply delete it.

The same goes for clothing replacements too btw, often times there is a group like "body" that is completely transparent. You can do the same there.

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We've made it to the end of this rotation! I forget which season or year this round belongs to... I just got really overwhelmed with typing up the exact same tags over and over again, back when I did smaller posts, that this go around I did the minimal amount as I figured precise organisation wasn't really important for this BACC series.

Moving on, for the end of this round, Sora and Laszlo move into their new home... only to find out Sora has to become a werewolf!

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Here's a nice short update! Shu and Alfredo get started on their RoS event with no qualms at all!

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One of these days I will design a template to put these RoS events into, because that ^^ is just ugly for sharing...

... ANYWAY, here is the sim who received another trait! Palmira now Loves the Outdoors!

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Part 2/2

After the burglary, Cammie decides to try and propose a steady relationship again, and Jeremi rejects the idea again. Yes, I know, I'm making Cammie do this, but story-wise... it makes sense for this to happen until the relationship is irreparable.

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I don't even remember what job Cammie had... But she's fulfilled that RoS event at least!

Part 1/2

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We've got just a small update for this household, containing Vicki and Lucas Bridges, and K'awil Langö - whose father died from a cowplant :(

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Doh - I think I might need to remove this challenge! >.< Unless anyone has ideas or things they do to remind themselves that sims are vegetarian??? My memory is terrible >.<

Whatever - I have a second monitor now, so hopefully being able to have my BACC spreadsheet open all the time, where I keep these kinds of notes, will help because it'll be right there.

Let's get on with the Filipová household!

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Back again after a little break! I haven't played sims in months, but honestly it's given me time to work on merging my downloads and catch up on posting these images - I am so behind!

This household would have been boring if not for Dominick's businesses - two sims and one of them has to be locked up the whole time?!

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It appears my sims have been having boring lives so far... just a new 'do for Quinton!

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We're continuing from part 1, to which I can't figure out how to link to as it's still in my queue... I'm just not looking hard enough, I just know it... >.>

Anywaaaay, since Neil moved on from Aschlee, she moved onto Einrí.

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